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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Queens
New York
Common
Sense
Oxford
Einstein
Scholar
Basketball
Streets

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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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The world is run by C students
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You better have great practices.
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I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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